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                         How To Use Libcurl In Your Program
    
    Interfaces
    
     libcurl currently offers two different interfaces to the URL transfer
     engine. They can be seen as one low-level and one high-level, in the sense
     that the low-level one will allow you to deal with a lot more details but on
     the other hand not offer as many fancy features (such as Location:
     following). The high-level interface is supposed to be a built-in
     implementation of the low-level interface. You will not be able to mix
     function calls from the different layers.
    
     As we currently ONLY support the high-level interface, the so called easy
     interface, I will not attempt to describe any low-level functions at this
     point.
    
    Function descriptions
    
     The interface is meant to be very simple for very simple
     implementations. Thus, we have minimized the number of entries.
    
    Main Operations
    
     You INIT the lib
    
     You SET OPTIONS you want the lib to use.
    
     You tell the lib to PERFORM the transfer.
    
     You CLEAN UP the lib
    
     done.
    
     See the separate man pages for the libcurl functions for details.
    
    
            CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *curl, CURLoption option, ...);
    
    
    
    CURLcode curl_easy_perform(CURL *curl);
    void curl_easy_cleanup(CURL *curl);